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Playlist
from May 10, 2004

The Soundtrack you hear in your head as you hand the toll collector your last dollar and drive tentatively into the lonely tunnel toward the arms of Morpheus. But like, who's playing that crazy organ?
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This superb movie score - one of the best ever composed for a western -has never been released on CD.

0:00:00 ()

Tim Buckley

Strange Feeling

Live in Copenhagen (1968)

CD

From tapes found by Mrs. Buckley. Sonics are adequate, performance is great.

0:01:56 ()

Delius, Frederick

On Hearing the First Cuckoo in spring

Elgar Ravel Faure

IMP

CD

English Sinfonia cond. by Sir Charles Groves. A lovely program oi shorter British & French pastoral pieces.

0:10:50 ()

Orff, Carl

Spring: Veris Let a Facies; Omnia Sol Temperat; Ecce Gratum

Carmina Burana

Apollo

CD

Russian State Symphony Orch. & Chorus cond. by Serge Tchaikov

0:17:14 ()

Rimsky-Korsakov

May Night Overture

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Spirit of Russia

Vox Box

CD

Bochum Symphony cond. by Othmar Maga

0:25:39 ()

Here's the free form equivalent of a great utility infielder, Bob Rixon.

Haddens, The

LU SHAN Suite for two pianos

Peking Premiere

Toshiba Musical Industries

1973?

CD

Richard & Frances Root Hadden, American duo pianists. Souvenir of a 1973 China concert tour during which the artists had a long visit with Chiang Ching, Mao's wife (& artistic mentor of the 1966 Cultural Revolution), & performed "Oh Susanna" & "Lullaby of Birdland" in their concerts. Frances. Hadden was born in China.

0:36:33 ()

Waxman, Franz

Rear Window Suite: Prelude; Rhumba; Ballet; Finale

Masters of Mayhem

Intersound

1990

CD

San Diego Symphony cond. by Lalo Schifrin

0:55:42 ()

Angelo Badalamenti

Audrey's Dance

Twin Peaks

WB

1990

CD

Grady Tate plays drums.

1:04:23 ()

Patti Smith & Fred Smith

It Takes Time

Until the End of the World (soundtrack)

1991

CD

1:08:47 ()

End.

Ruin Anyone Anywhere Anything

The Sounds of Disaster

Ipecac

2004

CD

1:13:58 ()

Shorty Rogers

Windswept

The Wild One

RCA

LP

Recorded for Brando biker movie, included on a "best-of" double LP of Shorty's 50s music, from RCA in the 80s. That's a young Maynard Ferguson pushing the high notes.

1:18:19 ()

Cablejuice

S.V.P.

Dutch Dance 2000

conamus

2000

CD

Compilation. This stuff gets government underwriting in the Netherlands. No wonder DJ Bart Plantenga won't come back to Jersey!

1:21:26 ()

Marion Brown Quartet

Fortunato

Why Not?

ESP

1966

CD

with Sirone, Stanley Cowell, Rashied Ali.

1:25:32 ()

Steely Dan

Dr. Wu

Katy Lied

MCA

Vinyl

Did his man show up with the goods or was it a junky's hallucination? Or were Don & Walt just making space for a Phil Woods solo?

1:33:57 ()

Third Wave

Maiden Voyage

Third Wave

CD

Arr. by George Duke

1:46:32 ()

Free Design / Mellow

Kites Are Fun

Free Design Redesigned The Remix EP Vol 1

2004

12"

1:52:23 ()

Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66

For Me

Equinox

A&M

1967

Vinyl

1:57:17 ()

Tranquility Bass

Cantamilla

California Dreaming (compilation)

ffrr

1993

CD

I see, I know. Mike Kandel believed he could create enduring music for a genre that disposes of everything DJs were playing last week. At WFMU the freak flag is never furled.

2:01:46 ()

Robert Lippok

Schemes Like These

Falling in Komeit

Monica

2004

CD

2:08:50 ()

Pest 5000

Pregnant Pause

Interabang

Derivative

1996

CD

2:13:47 ()

Timmy Thomas

Cold Cold People

Why Can't We Live Together?

Glades / TK

Vinyl

2:16:59 ()

DJ Olive, John Medeski, Billy Martin

Sleeptalking

Turntable Sessions Vol. 1`

2004

CD

Recorded at several downtown NYC venues. Most cuts feature DJ Olive in collaboration with other artists.